Checksheet

This checksheet should help in testing a system in determining whether it meets our design goals.

By default (= the user may be able to change this),...

• the system does not print techno-bubble on the screen
• an average Mac user immediately feels at home (even though the system may be simpler and have other differences)
• the user does not need any logins nor passwords
• media files can be played out of the box
• devices on the network are automatically discovered
• keyboard language, timezone, and system language are set automatically or with minimal effort
• the user does not need a package manager
• the system can run the apps from https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Libre-Graphics-Suite using binaries provided directly by the authors
• all "system administration" can easily be accomplished in the file manager
• fonts look good
• system administrators dislike the system because there is nothing to see or do here ;-)

Look and feel:

• Icons on the desktop are ordered on the right-hand side and visually clearly accented
• Start menu merged with current Alt-F2 functionality and invoked with Alt-Spacebar
• Menubar at the top of the screen, ideally we move the application menus up there (like Ubuntu Unity could do)
• What is currently in the bottom right of the screen moves to the upper right
• Clock in the upper right
• Default (OK) buttons on the right in dialog boxes
• Zeroconf everywhere (e.g., show servers in the file manager)
• Keyboard shortcuts: Alt key for commands, Alt-W to close things
• Window close/minimize/maximize at the left-hand side of the title bar

Feel free to add.